J.T. Winik | Figurative painter

Kingston based artist J. T. Winik obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Education at the University of Western Ontario in London.

Since 1996, J.T Winik has dedicated herself entirely to painting, dividing her time primarily between Spain, Holland and Canada. Winik's work frequently incorporates the female form.

Recurring themes examine the emotional tension within the psychological context of various dualities: power and fragility, angst and felicity, and passion and passivity.

Cesare Pavese / Filippo Anivitti: I will pass by Piazza di Spagna

Filippo Anivitti (1876-1955) | The Spanish Steps, Rome | Christie's

There will be a clear sky.

The streets will open out

onto the hills of pines and stone.

The tumult of the streets

will not disturb the still air.

Flowers blotched

with colour by the fountains

will eye you

like amused women. Steps

terraces swallows

will sing out in the sun.

Léon Spilliaert | Symbolist painter

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946), also Leon Spilliaert, was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.

Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfumer, and his wife Léonie (née Jonckheere).

From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a self-taught artist.

Charles-Amable Lenoir | Academic painter

French painter🎨 Charles Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) was born in Châtellaillon, a small district located near La Rochelle.

His family was of moderate means and knowing that his parents would not support art as a career, Lenoir became a maître d'études (study master), and then a teacher at a secondary school, the Lycée in Rochefort.

He began his artistic studies at Rochefort-su-Mer when he visited at age 20.

Hermann Hesse | Watercolor painter

• "For me, producing with drawing pen and brush is the wine whose inebriating effect makes life warm and pleasant to an extent that it becomes bearable".

• La produzione con penna e pennello per me è il vino, la cui ebbrezza scalda ed abbellisce la vita in modo da renderla sopportabile”.

Hermann Hesse, 1920.

Anna De Weert | Luminist painter

Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (1867-1950) was a Belgian painter.

She would paint in the Luminist style.

Life

Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen.

Her grandfather was Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were painters.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Expressionist painter

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) - German painter and printmaker- one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”).

His mature style was highly personal and notable for its psychological tension and eroticism.

In 1898 Kirchner was impressed by the graphic art of the German late Gothic artists, especially Albrecht Dürer, whose influence on Kirchner was lifelong.

Paul Kelley, 1955 | Figurative painter

Paul Kelley is a Canadian artist, born in Nova Scotia. He took his academic studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick form 1973-1975.

Paul lives in LaHave, Nova Scotia with his wife and family. He enjoys spending time with family and friends, running, kayaking, and working on their 100 year old house and property.